Magician Harry Houdini died at Grace Hospital in Detroit on Halloween in 1926 after his appendix ruptured. His body was then taken to the W. R. Hamilton and Company Funeral Home in the Cass Corridor.
Skyrocketing rent in Midtown is pricing out Wayne State students; state to force dozens of medical marijuana dispensaries to close; and fast food workers are rallying for better wages and the right to organize a labor union.
In the meantime, neighborhoods were left with very little police protection as victims of violent crimes often waited more than an hour for help.
The scene was chaotic as people fled the area, many of them families with children.
Thousands of people turned out this weekend for the annual Dlectricity, a series of impressive light exhibits that included massive bunnies and a psychedelic display on the facade of the Detroit Public Library in Midtown.
Why Dallas’ failing streetcars could spell trouble for Detroit.
New streetcars are slow, unreliable, over-budget, accident-prone and vulnerable to mechanical failures, according to an exhaustive examination of the nine systems that opened since 2013.
Thousands of colorfully costumed revelers plan to take to the streets to chase away a mythological red dwarf in the Cass Corridor.
Motor City Muckraker obtained a copy of the “confidential” agreement between Ilitch and Wayne State to build a business school, and the details don’t fit the media-peddle narrative.
No area of Detroit is changing as rapidly as the Cass Corridor.